Households are drowning in a relentless spiral of debt, high interest rates, various living costs increases, food price inflation, anxiety and desperation as they are forced to make impossible choices with meagre financial resources....
As appealing as it is to want to put pressure on retail giants into forgoing a small fraction of their gargantuan profits by scrapping their profit margins on essential food items, this strategy is flawed....
A new report on child poverty by the Department of Social Development (DSD) brings new data, including the fact that eight million children are not getting enough nutrition. With the constitutional duty on the state to ensure every child has ‘basic nutrition’, it will add...
With millions of children not getting enough nutrition, the DG Murray Trust’s Grow Great project has intensified its call for the government and food industry to waive mark-ups on 10 essential food items. Rising food prices are causing chronic malnutrition affecting one-quarter of South Africa’s children,...
Volunteers tackle food insecurity in Touws River by growing vegetables in home and community food gardens. It’s a town where many people are unemployed and struggling to make ends meet....
Smallholder farmers are at the periphery of the food industry and yet farmers such as Nontobeko Khanyile, in collaboration with multiple projects, prove they should be at the forefront of the fight against unsustainable farming and hunger....
The reality is that nobody wins when there is widespread food insecurity in the world as this leads to social unrest, migration, and human suffering....
Professor Michael Rudolph of the Center of Ecological Intelligence is spearheading a programme of inexpensive approaches to cultivating food gardens to address food insecurity issues in South Africa....
Too many policymakers in Africa have a mindset of managing poverty, rather than of managing development. Its food system paradox isn’t grounded in a lack of agricultural resources, but in the geopolitical, financing and energy issues plaguing the continent....
The burden of hunger in Touws River is heavy, as a recent learning journey revealed. Understanding how the local food system works is crucial to stemming further socioeconomic breakdown in this and other small rural towns....